I mean, Christianity prolly wouldn’t have took so well if Jesus had just bitched slap a bunch of Jews and told them they’re doing it wrong.

No, the focus on political correctness diverted attention from the actual problems, including economic and racial malaise, which festered just under the surface. That was the culture wars. All Trump trump had to do was scratch the surface. Now liberals act all surprised.

When everything is racist, nothing is racist.

Wow, it’s hard to even wrap your head around the fact that the Clintonites are taking this time to celebrate any kind of “victory”. We beat Sanders with the help of our rich buddies whooo! Actually, from the point of view of genuine Clintonites (the leadership) this was a great victory, that was no less important than…

Your every sentence proves my point. I dunno of its ignorance, party discipline or a genuinely right-wing outlook that makes you rally behind the flag. Probably both. Either way.What I can’t stand is this “progressive, human rights ...” cover. Buf there’s anything that American politics has perfected it’s glib and…

Heh, the US want to capture Assange and throw him in a dungeon like Bradley manning. Knee-slapper. The sexual assault allegations amount to Assange allegedly having had consensual sex without a condom. The case spun out of control beyond what any of the women involved contemplated initially.

you mean voting in nafta, financial deregulation, iraq, three strikes, bombing yugoslavia and sudan, ending welfare as we know it, exploiting identity politics, killing 500K kids in iraq sanctions, shafting unions?

Yeah, well, I don’t LIKE to run, per se, but I do it because it’s fucking good for me.

Bad analogy. You should have said “I don’t LIKE to eat poop per se, but it’s better than starving”. That’d be accurate. Unfortunately the problem with subsisting on poop is that you don’t get many nutrients from it. It’s is adamantly not “fucking good” for you. Eventually, you’ll either starve anyway due to poor diet,…

Well if you are not on the left, I have no problem with your position. I am firmly on the left, you are centrist, so we have different objectives on certain issues. It is important to honest about what those objectives are. Some “progressives” these days are either dishonest or deluded, and it’s getting to a point…

Wikileaks had the dirt on that. But these are just details. The larger point is that the DLC is wedded to big business and Clinton in particular. They have numerous connections in the media and corporate world. They have been co-opting black elites for decades. And so on and so forth. All of this makes for a system…

Fair enough. But you do hate Trump voters, no? Perhaps those who neglected their civic duty by staying home too, no? I don;t want to make any assumptions about individuals, but hatred for these groups has been the general tenor on this site for quite some time.

What’s so hard to get? If America elected a black guy, surely it would elect a Jew. You have to live in an alternate universe to pretend otherwise. Or will you pretend anything to maintain your fantasies about the DLC?

Ok, I’m a 30 year old Jew. And you are?

Yeah that’s you. The latte drinking liberal elite, everyone else is trash. (I am not a liberal either, which has by now become a dirty dirty word for anyone on the Left)

they should be supporting one another, not trying to take each other down.

Likability has been promoted as the only metric for decades, since candidates don’t discuss policy and don’t differ much on policy. Pepsi or Coke? Funnily enough, “likability” was promoted by marketers who engineer modern campaigns (i.e. the very same people who directed the Clinton campaign, ironically). They got a…

The basic point is that bernie has the right ideas, not that he was more electable (which he probably was). Stop pretending that you work as a strategist for the DLC. They will never ask you which candidate will play best with their hypothetical demos. They have pros that do this shit. The only question you have to…

I dislike for reasons of substance 105% Trump’s platform and 15% of Clinton’s but neither of these are predicated on who I would want to sit across from at KFC for Tuesday lunch

By that token Trump was also “not unpopular.” Brain damage is really heavy here.